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  • Roxie Pell

    Wherefore Art Thou

    To honor the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the Folger Shakespeare Library is sending the First Folio around the country. Looks like the book tour really is dead.

  • Mary Allen

    Shakespeare’s First Folio, Coming to a City Near You!

    The Folger has 82 First Folios—the largest collection in the world. It’s located several stairways down, in a rare manuscript vault. To reach them, you first have to get through a fire door … (if a fire did threaten these…